The Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) supports Trinity’s urban and global initiatives through classroom teaching and learning, faculty and student research, semester or summer study away, and experiential activities in Hartford and globally. Working with faculty, the Center strives to integrate the academic and experiential studies of local urban issues in the Hartford region and global urban issues in a variety of world cities, especially in the cosmopolitan centers of Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Trinidad, Cape Town, and Shanghai where Trinity operates its own study programs in cooperation with local universities. On campus, a large number of faculty members from a variety of departments and programs participate in the following four urban-centered programs under the Center through teaching, research, and advising.